St. Luke’s dedicates Carbon Campus

St. Luke’s formally dedicated its Carbon

Campus hospital on Oct. 30 with a ribbon-cutting event that took place outside of the building’s main entrance.

Patients will be treated at the new facility starting this fall.

The new three-story, 80-patient room, 160,000-square-foot facility is the largest of its kind in the history of Carbon County and the first new hospital built in the county in 65 years. It is the centerpiece of the network’s new 108-acre technologically advanced, multipurpose, rural medical and wellness complex in Lehighton, Pa. It will redefine healthcare access, convenience and quality for the local population and surrounding areas.

All patient rooms are private, and each is outfitted with a wall-mounted, 55-inch smart TV to facilitate two-way audio/visual communication between patients and their providers anywhere, as well as patients and their family members worldwide.

Real-time computer system-linked digital whiteboards in patient rooms will display the names of the patient’s caregivers, day of the week, scheduled activities and other useful safety information.

Life-Aire air purification systems installed in the air ducts throughout the hospital’s treatment areas will kill all air pathogens, including COVID-19 and anthrax, making it one of the few hospitals in the nation with this novel technology.

A technically astute attendant in the St. Luke’s-created TechConnect help center in the lobby will give free-of-charge assistance to patients, visitors and community members struggling to learn or use personal digital or medical symptom-monitoring devices or apps.